Cooking supper tonight, I am reminded of how my mother cooked meat until well done. Open a can of vegetables and boil them for 15 minutes. There were no rare steaks, sushi or stir fried vegetables. We all had good teeth to chew through steaks and pork chops and we never had food poisoning.
I wonder how our ancestors cooked. What was their main staple of food? How was it preserved? You couldn't just go out and cut a steak off a cow in the field or a pork chop from a pig. Ham and bacon were smoke cured. A process my grandmother did in her smokehouse even when I was a small child. Potatoes and carrots were buried in the ground in the crawl space under the house to save them to use through the winter. Apples were laid out in the sun to dry. Meat was dried for jerky. Herbs from your back yard were used for flavor. Ring a chicken's neck and fry it for supper or you could catch a fish or shoot a duck.
I'm glad I live today where all I have to do is open the refrigerator.
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